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Mark Edward Mullen (b.1961) is a distinguished,
Emmy Award winning TV journalist and was the Chief Asia
Correspondent for NBC News,until leaving
NBC in December, 2008. He regularly reported news on notable
Chinese and East Asian current events and contributed in depth
stories about China's changing culture, economy, political system,
and society. Though much of his career has been spent anchoring
broadcasts at both the local and national level.

Mullen attended Loyola University in New Orleans from 1981 to 1985,
where he majored in Journalism and Spanish. After graduating from
college, he went to work as a reporter in Mississippi for WLOX-TV the
regional ABC affiliate covering Biloxi, Gulfport, and
Pascagoula.. After two years working at WLOX, Mullen moved
to work as a reporter at KDFW in Dallas, Texas.

After working in Dallas for another two years, Mr. Mullen went to
work as an anchor and reporter for KRON-TV in San Francisco. Mullen
spent seven years working in San Francisco and rose to popularity
and prominence as a bay area television personality. After working
at KRON, Mr. Mullen moved up to anchor the national ABC overnight
newscast World News Now.
Mark spent five years anchoring World News Now, where he fit in
well to the often humorous newscast. Mullen then spent two
years anchoring the local evening news in Seattle for KING-TV before
returning to KRON. After joining NBC News as a national
correspondent in 2003, he reported out of NBC News's Burbank
bureau.

In late 2006 Mullen assumed his post in Beijing, marking the first
time NBC had a full-time correspondent in China since Ned Colt left
in 2004. The new role was part of a NBC News expansion of its
bureau there, which was undoubtedly tied to NBC's effort to
increase visibility of China in anticipation of the network's
broadcast of the 2008 Olympic
Games. After arriving in Beijing, Mullen produced a number of
notable stories, including a weeklong series on NBC Nightly News with Brian
Williams called " China
Rising" which showed a multi-faceted changing China in the
context of the October 2007 Communist Party Congress. Mullen also
contributed to the one year Olympic countdown broadcasts for NBC's
TODAY and Nightly News on August 8, 2007.
Mullen's
August 8 live stand-up from Tiananmen Square was the first live broadcast from the square since
the Chinese government crackdown on student demonstrators in
1989.

Mullen continued to report the NBC News throughout the 2008 Olympic
Games. After the Olympics, he moved to the NBC News bureau in
Burbank, California where he remained until he was released by NBC
as part of a company-wide downsizing within NBC Universal in which
at least 500 employees lost their jobs nationwide.

Mullen has won numerous national and regional awards for his work.
He is married to San Francisco native Jamie Flanagan with whom they
have two children.